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The Industrial Revoultion

By monica.mason.00

  • The bank of England is established.

  • Abraham Darby Develops a blast funrace

  • Thomas Newcombe develops the first practical steam engine

  • The invention of new and larger spinning and weaving machines shifts the textile industry into factories.

  • Enclosures of farming land accelerate in Britain.

  • James Watt invents a steam engine capable of providing continious power.

  • Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.

  • Henry Cort's 'puddling process further improves the quality of iron products.

  • The Blulton and Watt steam engineis first used in textile factories.

  • First British fleet arrives at Botany Bay (Sydney)

  • The French Revolution begins.

  • The first population census is taken in Britain.

  • British found the new colony of Van Diemon's Land. (Tasmania)

  • The first working steam locomotive train, known as Puffing Billy, is built.

  • The first English public steam railway (from Stockton to Darlinton) is opened.

  • Railway building begins in France and Germany.

  • Samuel Morse develops the single wire telegraph.

  • Australia's gold rush begins.

  • Alexander Graham Bell patents the first telephone.

  • Thomas Edison invents the first reliable electric light bulb.

  • Eiffel Tower completed in Paris, France.

  • Wright brothers invent modern flight.

  • Henry Ford mass produces the Model T Ford automoblie.